additional funding for america reframed provided b y open society foundations acton family givin g, park foundatiorts and the reva and david logan foundation . additional funding f this episode was provided by i lambda charitable trust. ♪ ♪ recently, i decided to go on the journey to go find my da d, a man that i hadn't seen in 30 years. i remember the last time that i ever spoke to my da d. i was eight years ol d. i don't remember what it was . maybe he didn't come for a visi t, or he missed my birthday or didn't get me a present . i don't quite remember but i do remember feeling angr y. i remember feeling hur t. and my mom encouraged me to tell him how i felt . now my mom ner badmouthed my da d. she never said he was a bad guy or he was a bad father . and i think even at that young age i knew what she want ed and i think i knew what was expecte d. so when my mom encouraged me to tell him how i felt i remember calling him up on the phon e, my mom was next to me on the couch and i blamed him for this thing, or that thin g, and i don't even remembe r. but i remember the last thin g i ever said to m

additional funding for america reframed provided by open society foundatio ns acton family giv ing, park ion, the national endowment for the ar ts and the reva and david logan foundati on. ♪ ♪ ♪ it was a hot, humid da y in the first week of august in 197 5 in this small, cramped hearing ro om in the boston public schools headquarte r, where there were hundreds of people waiting to testi fy in front of the school committ ee on the second phase of the boston busing pla n, where they would bus elementary school students . i was therewith three representat es from the newly formed chinese parents associatio n. they were there to plead their cas e. we organized all summer long . the meetings went from 20 parents to sometime 200 . some of the parents were parents of my own student s, and some of them were my student s in my saturday english classes . and there are othe rs who are my mother's friends from the garment factor y. so all summer long they organized . they went to community meeting s, they went to community organization s, and then pleaded with community leaders to help them . and al

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